@article {57662, title = {A New Cryptic Species of the Adenomera andreae Clade from Southwestern Amazonia (Anura, Leptodactylidae)}, journal = {Herpetologica}, volume = {75}, year = {2019}, month = {Jan-09-2019}, pages = {233}, abstract = {

We describe a new Amazonian species of Adenomera that corresponds to one of the acoustic signals and morphs from Tambopata National Reserve (Adenomera \‘\‘Forest Call I\’\’) and to a confirmed candidate species (Adenomera sp. E) in the most recently published phylogeny for the genus. The new species is distinguished from all 19 described congeners by its unique advertisement call, consisting of a single multipulsed note, formed by 22\–35 partly fused pulses (greatest pulse number recorded for the genus among species with partly fused notes). The new species is further distinguished from most congeners in having toe tips expanded into small discs. Its distribution is associated with the Amazonian region encompassing western Brazil (state of Acre), southeastern Peru, and north-central Bolivia.

}, keywords = {Amazon rain forest, bioacoustics, biodiversity, integrative taxonomy, Leptodactylinae, Tambopata}, doi = {10.1655/D-18-00049}, url = {https://bioone.org/journals/herpetologica/volume-75/issue-3/D-18-00049/A-New-Cryptic-Species-of-the-Adenomera-andreae-Clade-from/10.1655/D-18-00049.full}, author = {Thiago R. De Carvalho and Angulo, Ariadne and Marcelo N. C. Kokubum and Barrera, Diego A. and De Souza, Mois{\'e}s B. and C{\'e}lio F. B. Haddad and Ariovaldo A. Giaretta} } @book {53385, title = {Investigation of Unsupervised Models for Biodiversity Assessment}, volume = {11320}, year = {2018}, pages = {160 - 171}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, organization = {Springer International Publishing}, address = {Cham}, abstract = {

Significant animal species loss has been observed in recent decades due to habitat destruction, which puts at risk environmental integrity and biodiversity. Traditional ways of assessing biodiversity are limited in terms of both time and space, and have high cost. Since the presence of animals can be indicated by sound, recently acoustic recordings have been used to estimate species richness. Bioacoustic sounds are typically recorded in habitats for several weeks, so contain a large collection of different sounds. Birds are of particular interest due to their distinctive calls and because they are useful ecological indicators. To assess biodiversity, the task of manually determining how many different types of birds are present in such a lengthy audio is really cumbersome. Towards providing an automated support to this issue, in this paper we investigate and propose a clustering based approach to assist in automated assessment of biodiversity. Our approach first estimates the number of different species and their volumes which are used for deriving a biodiversity index. Experimental results with real data indicates that our proposed approach estimates the biodiversity index value close to the ground truth.

}, keywords = {bioacoustics, biodiversity, Unsupervised model}, isbn = {978-3-030-03990-5}, issn = {0302-9743}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-03991-210.1007/978-3-030-03991-2_17}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-03991-2}, author = {KVSN Rama Rao and Garg, Saurabh and Montgomery, James}, editor = {Mitrovic, Tanja and Xue, Bing and Li, Xiaodong} } @article {47337, title = {Acoustic monitoring of Orthoptera and its potential for conservation}, journal = {Journal of Insect Conservation}, volume = {2}, year = {1998}, month = {Jan-01-1998}, pages = {217 - 223}, abstract = {

Songs of Orthoptera can be used for inventorying and monitoring of individual species and communities. Acoustic parameters such as carrier frequency and pulse rates allow the definition of recognizable taxonomic units (RTUs) which help to overcome the taxonomic impediment due to our scanty knowledge, particularly of tropical faunas. Bioacoustic diversity is a first estimate for species richness and provides baseline data which can be a prerequisite for conservation. Additional ecological and behavioural information such as habitat preference and singing schedules can be inferred. Many Orthoptera are sensitive indicator species for habitat quality in temperate and tropical ecosystems. Examples are given for evaluation of habitat quality and deterioration by acoustic detection of Orthoptera.

}, keywords = {bioacoustics, biodiversity, conservation, monitoring, Orthoptera, tropical forests}, issn = {1366638X}, doi = {10.1023/A:1009695813606}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1023/A:1009695813606}, author = {Riede, Klaus} }